Marriage has been practiced the same way for years and years as a bond between two people. This is why not everyone agrees with the idea of gay marriage. Marriage has been a promise between a man and a woman for quite some time, and gay marriage being a union between two persons of the same sex causes many believe that it needs to remain that way which is why prior to the supreme court ruling 13 states still had not legalized gay marriage which included Texas, Arkansas, Nevada, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Most believe that equality is something that must be granted to all individuals, but this of course has not been the case until June 26, 2015 when gay marriage
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This not only applies to social security, but also Medicare entitlements and eligibility and payment amount for SSI payments. (Social Security Administration, what Same-Sex Couples Need to Know 3) This speaks for their inequality even more, they were not even able to attain their significant others information if there were to ever be a situation where the others life would end. There are zero programs that give homosexuals benefits, like heterosexuals have, whether they are together or divorce. (30+Examples of Heterosexual Privilege …show more content…
Hodges case was a prominent one involving gay marriage. This court case was a 5-4 decision that debated whether or not same sex marriage is protected under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. (ballotpedia.org) On another note, the court case Baehr v. Miike was the first ever case to rule that excluding same-sex couples from being married was considered discrimination. Clearly this was when certain individuals finally began to realize that this discrimination was an issue. This case was presented before Hawaii’s highest court, but in 1999 they ruled that their constitution did not protect lesbian and gay individual with regard to their freedom to marry. This goes to show just how much of a controversial issue gay marriage
This not only applies to social security, but also Medicare entitlements and eligibility and payment amount for SSI payments. (Social Security Administration, what Same-Sex Couples Need to Know 3) This speaks for their inequality even more, they were not even able to attain their significant others information if there were to ever be a situation where the others life would end. There are zero programs that give homosexuals benefits, like heterosexuals have, whether they are together or divorce. (30+Examples of Heterosexual Privilege …show more content…
Hodges case was a prominent one involving gay marriage. This court case was a 5-4 decision that debated whether or not same sex marriage is protected under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. (ballotpedia.org) On another note, the court case Baehr v. Miike was the first ever case to rule that excluding same-sex couples from being married was considered discrimination. Clearly this was when certain individuals finally began to realize that this discrimination was an issue. This case was presented before Hawaii’s highest court, but in 1999 they ruled that their constitution did not protect lesbian and gay individual with regard to their freedom to marry. This goes to show just how much of a controversial issue gay marriage